Palais Brömserhof

The late Baroque, eaves-facing house of seven axes is not directly on Schildstraße, but set back behind a high iron fence, so that due to the forecourt, untypical for Lübeck, in conjunction with the neighboring buildings extending to the street, the impression of a Corps de Logis with a courtyard of honor is conveyed. The slate-covered mansard roof is surmounted by the three-axis, simple central risalit with a classical gable, which also contains the simple entrance portal. According to dendrochronological findings, the wood of the roof was felled in the winter of 1744/45. The building in its current form was probably built in the summer of 1745; however, the barrel-vaulted cellar and part of the west gable still date from the 13th/14th century. The house was rebuilt in 1769 and around 1800, as well as in the course of repurposing in the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Inside, a Rococo hall and a Baroque staircase system over all three floors are preserved on the ground floor. The house features numerous original decorative elements (stucco ceilings, wood paneling).

On the rear property, there is also a preserved row of stalls from the 15th century.

The building was acquired in 1819 by the well-known Lübeck orthopedist Matthias Ludwig Leithoff and used for his Orthopedic Institute, founded the year before. This institution was so successful at the time that Leithoff acquired the property St.-Annen-Straße 4 (the later Jenische Freischule) in 1821, whose rear garden property adjoins Schildstraße 12-14. In 1852, the judge Karl Georg von Wächter was the owner of the building, and in 1879 it was acquired by Georg Wilhelm Daniel Rey, the owner of the Lübeckische Anzeigen and the publishing house Gebr. Borchers.

In 1914, the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck acquired the complex and used it as a mother's home, health office, and housing office.

Since 1999, the Brömserhof has been the seat of the Cultural Administration of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck and the seat of the Cultural Foundation of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck.

Owners

• 1229-1307: Councilman Marquard Vorrade and his sons Bertram and Marquard
• 1379: Councilman Tidemann Vorrade, Bertram's son, after his death in 1385 his widow and children
• 1425 Knight Engelbert Tissenhusen
• 1438-1465: Councilman Reyner von Calven
• 1472-1504: Councilman Heinrich von Calven, in possession of the von Calven family until 1562
• 1562: as dowry of Catharina, daughter of Andreas von Calven, successively to her husbands Hartwig von Stiten († 1562) and Dietrich von Broemse († 1600)
• 1633-1638: Councilman Dietrich von Brömse (1579-1638), then his son
• 1652: Mayor David Gloxin
• 1663: Andreas Albrecht Brömse
• 1703-1744: Lüneburg family
• 1744-1785: Chamberlain von Albedyl
• 1798: Henning von Rumohr († 1805), father of Carl Friedrich von Rumohr
• 1805: Henning Rumohr's widow, Wilhelmine von Rumohr, née von Fersen (1751–1807)
• 1811: Johann Hinrich Neeser (Postmaster)
• 1819: Dr. Matthias Ludwig Leithoff
• 1852: Karl Georg von Wächter, President of the Higher Court of Appeal of the Four Free Cities
• 1879: Georg Wilhelm Daniel Rey, merchant and publisher (1830-1892)
• 1907: Johannes Heinrich Thomas Drath, merchant
• 1914: Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck